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Syrian regime troops score gains, push into strategic rebel-held town near Lebanon
Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the...Tags: Executive Branch, Elections, Egypt, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Lebanon
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Fears grow of clash between Israel and Syria
JERUSALEM — Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria's warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative calm along the two nations&...
Tags: Yom Kippur, Hamas, National Government, Defense Equipment, Benjamin Netanyahu
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Assad says Syria transition talks internal matter, seems to cast down on US-Russia initiative
Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to...Tags: Elections, Lebanon, Religion and Belief, Beirut (Lebanon), Bashar Assad
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Syria's Assad dubious of U.S.-Russia peace initiative
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed skepticism that a planned U.S.-Russian peace conference could help stop the bloodshed in his country, according to an interview published Saturday in an Argentine newspaper. The Syrian leader...
Tags: Afghanistan, National Government, Bashar Assad, Wars and Interventions, Russia
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President Obama says the Syrian regime is more interested in holding on to power than in the welfare of its people. Funny, I think the same thing about Obama and the Democrats. To those who think people on Social Security are relying on so-called big-...Tags: Hillary Clinton, U.S. Congress, Rick Scott, Internal Revenue Service, Danny Werfel
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Bombs in Sunni areas of Iraq kill at least 76 people in major spike of sectarian violence
Associated PressBAGHDAD (AP) — Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could...Tags: Tehran (Iran), Lebanon, Religion and Belief, Migration, Bashar Assad
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Syrian soldiers warned daily of sectarian dangers, defectors say
MARAAT NUMAN, Syria — Each morning, after saluting the Syrian flag and before the warplanes take off, soldiers at army bases across Syria are given political orientation. During the lectures, conscripts and career officers alike are repeatedly...Tags: Bashar Assad, Wars and Interventions, Religious Conflicts, Jihad, Free Syrian Army
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U.S. decries Russia weapons sale to Syria
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday condemned Russia's delivery of advanced antiship missiles to Syria and its buildup of warships in the eastern Mediterranean, arguing that the Kremlin's escalating support for its longtime ally in...
Tags: Military Equipment, Suez Canal, Lebanon, Bashar Assad, U.S. Department of State
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Dempsey slams Russia for giving Syria anti-ship missiles, says they'll 'prolong the suffering'
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration denounced Russia on Friday for providing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime with anti-ship missiles, saying the weapons would only worsen a war that Washington and Moscow have been promising to work...Tags: Military Equipment, Bashar Assad, U.S. Department of State, Wars and Interventions, Russia
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Rights groups say thousands have vanished into the Syrian regime's torture dungeons
Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) — About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off. That was a year...Tags: Amnesty International, Respiratory Disease, Beirut (Lebanon), Bashar Assad, Crime, Law and Justice
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Three U.N. observers released unharmed between Syria and Israel
BEIRUT -- Three United Nations observers posted in the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights were seized by armed anti-government forces and held for five hours this week before being released unharmed, the U.N. said. It...Tags: Employees, Government, Pakistan, United Nations, National Government
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Human Rights Watch says it has found evidence Syrians were tortured in government prisons
Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) — Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday....Tags: Religion and Belief, Transportation Accidents, Bashar Assad, U.S. Department of State, Crime, Law and Justice
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